Archive for 2008

flac or uberstandard?

Three years ago i purchased a Rockford Fosgate digital media server. This device streamed MP3′s from my PC to my hifi setup. At that point i decided to rip all of my CD’s for access by the streamer. The omnifi only supports MP3 or WAV so i chose to rip everything according to the uberstandard at the highest possible bit rate per the standard.

Fast forward three years and i have since ditched the bug laden Omnifi. However – the open source simplecenter that powered the interface to the PC is awesome…perusing the source made me very happy to see their technology choices. The replacement? A Sonos system! Since seeing this incredible whole home audio system in action at the owner of my company’s house i had to have one.

Now that I’ve got a system that is totally bug free and supports lossless audio formats I’m rethinking my decision to go with the uberstandard. Now that hard drive space is ubiquitous and my player supports it FLAC with its own DAC has peaked my interest.

What say you audiophiles? FLAC or go home?

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man in the middle

Occasionally your team won’t be the only team on a big league project. Sometimes you find yourself as the man in the middle. This is the first time that i find myself on the outside of the good ‘ol boy network. For the perseverance of the team we must push through. The shame of it is when the good ‘ol boy network determines enterprise solution decisions. Good times.

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WebSphere + JNDI + Spring Framework + Hibernate

Thought I’d post a snippet of applicationContext.xml for all the people out there trying a JNDI data source wired up in IBM’s WebSphere Application Server through Spring Framework and Hibernate. I couldn’t find this information as a whole anywhere out there so hopefully it helps someone.

Hit the jump for the xml. Read the rest of this entry »

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